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Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name

Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation’s feather logo. The photo is part of a set aiming to recreate a similar image taken around the time of the foundation’s launch. (credit: Rich Bowen/Zaheda...

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FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file

Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Saul Loeb) A Notice to Air Missions system outage that grounded flights across the US yesterday morning seems to have been caused by...

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Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit

Enlarge For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM (customer relationship management) system to infect users with malware that gives them full control of their servers. The vulnerability began as a zero-day when the exploit code was posted online in late December. The person posting the exploit described...

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Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long

Enlarge / Stewart Coonrod holds up an official 2023 Chuck E. Cheese floppy disk in a TikTok video. It contains dance moves for in-store animatronics. (credit: Stewart Coonrod) On Sunday, a Chuck E. Cheese employee named Stewart Coonrod posted a TikTok video that documents the process of installing a new song-and-dance show on an old...

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Microsoft 365 Basic gives you 100GB of OneDrive space (but no Office) for $2

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is adding a new low-end subscription tier to its Microsoft 365 service designed to cater to existing OneDrive subscribers and people who want more features for their Outlook inboxes but don’t need the full desktop versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. The Verge reports that Microsoft 365 Basic will cost $1.99...

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A widespread logic controller flaw raises the specter of Stuxnet

Enlarge In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as programmable logic controllers. The exploited PLCs were made by the automation giant Siemens and were all models from the company’s ubiquitous, long-running SIMATIC S7 product series....

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Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) If you purchased a new car in the past few years, chances are good that it contains at least one embedded modem, which it uses to offer some connected services. The benefits, we’ve been told, are numerous and include convenience features like interior preheating on a cold morning,...